Database: Warning of the Desert
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"That is nothing, brothers.
I have heard tell of a wondrous city far to the south, called Ubar by the desert folk.
They say it was once a place of soaring pillars and date-filled gardens, richer than any oasis beneath the sun.
Caravans that braved the surrounding desert spoke of gleaming palaces of red-hued stone and wells that never ran dry.
Yet one day the sands rose as though by God's command and swallowed Ubar whole, leaving nothing but an endless sea of dunes.
Some say her people drew down God's wrath by their pride.
For this reason, no man who ventures there now finds trace of palace or pillar—only the empty sands."